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1. 101 假 Fake Lessons, Real Schemes: The Childhood Friend Tutor’s Epic Fail 假教学真套路，竹马导师翻车实录 Mu Shenye牧神野11k WordsCompleted The Fake Lesson, the Real Seduction: A Record of My Childhood Friend Mentor’s Epic Backfire 358Reads—Score—14d adds
2. 102 觉 Awakening in Midsummer 觉醒盛夏 October Cricket十月蟋蟀Two Male Leads230k WordsCompleted [Two Male Leads + School Life + Mutual Firsts + Falling for Each Other + Healing + “Straight Guy Pretending to Be Gay” + “Friends to Lovers” + Happy Ending] How did two good friends end up as a couple? As it turned out, the signs had been there all along After suffering an emotional setback just before the exams, Zheng Yusheng, a well-known top student at No. 1 High School, failed the college entrance exam and missed out on a place at a top university. He fell into deep self-doubt. Zhang Yuanq 25Reads—Score—14d adds

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   Looks good in everyday life! [Smirk]

3. 103 表 Rejected After Confessing to My Roommate? Just Watch Me Train Him Myself 表白室友被拒？看我亲自调教 October Cricket十月蟋蟀Two Male Leads218k WordsCompleted [Two male leads + both inexperienced in love + everyday school life + first love for both + nurturing a secret crush + equally matched leads + a little romantic push and pull] It wasn’t love at first sight, but he favored him in every way. Xiao Mingzhao looked down at Lan Yibai beneath him. Before he knew what he was doing, he bent down and kissed him. Their eyes met: one gaze full of affection, the other full of alarm. “Lao Liu, what’s wrong with you? You didn’t just… kiss me, did you?” Lan 69Reads—Score—14d adds
4. 104 捡 I Brought a Man Home: Like Stars Falling into My Eyes 捡个男人回家：恰似星子落进眼眸 October Cricket十月蟋蟀Two Male Leads182k WordsCompleted [Two male leads + younger man + coming of age + mutual healing + contrast + doting on each other + happy ending] As a child, Cheng Cheng suffered trauma. Fortunately, while he was still in school, he met the person he cherished most, who stayed by his side through those bleak days. But their ten-year relationship eventually came to an end. Cheng Cheng moves far away on his own. On a freezing Spring Festival night, Zhang Tongfei, a migrant worker, finds him and takes him home. From an unexpect 21Reads—Score—14d adds
5. 105 炮 A Cannon-Fodder Character Becomes Everyone’s Favorite on a Dating Show with Nonhumans 炮灰人设，在人外恋综当万人迷 Powerful Rat Poison强力鼠药Two Male Leads285k WordsCompleted [Male-male romance + everyone’s favorite + a fragmented nonhuman love interest + horror romance + playing a vicious cannon-fodder character] Ruan Wen is a minor celebrity languishing on the company’s blacklist. Desperate for money, he accepts an offer to appear on a dating show, where he has to play the role of a disposable villain. [You’re a spoiled, useless troublemaker with a shabby, down-at-heel look. You think you’re some pampered young master, dreaming of marrying into wealth, yet you look 446Reads8.1Score10214d adds

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   These! These!

6. 106 舔 The Simp Walks Away, but the Stubborn, Unhinged Red-Eyed Lover Chases His Wife 舔狗转身不爱，嘴硬疯批红眼追妻 Shi Wen式问Two Male Leads439k WordsCompleted A gentle, sunny sweetheart who grows into a clear-eyed, aloof receiver × a pack of mad-dog, powerful tops (Dating show + from universally disliked to universally adored + rivals fighting over the same love interest + light coercion + dog training + no endgame speculation, with one 1v1 bonus ending for each pairing + everyone is pure) Ming Yan is invited to appear on a dating show alongside five heirs to the heavens. Born into privilege, they’re powerful from the moment they enter the world. Ming 2.3kReads8.8Score25914d adds
7. 107 要 Help! Assistant Pei Is Cold and Chaste, but the Boss Keeps Sneaking Looks 要命！裴助禁欲高冷，老板又偷看 Mountain Mist Courtyard山有茫庭Two Male Leads343k WordsCompleted [Dual male leads + ABO + intense push and pull + arrogant, picky, razor-tongued Alpha top who’s a top expert versus a brilliant, highly capable, superb cook who’s the perfect homemaker bottom] When Pei Wu first joined the company, everyone thought he wouldn’t last three months. President Lu was strict, picky, and a nitpicker. He shouldn’t even be allowed to live among ordinary people. He was the hardest boss to deal with. With documents in one hand and a spatula in the other, Pei Wu diligently s 68.3kReads9.5Score11.3k14d adds
8. 108 快 The Days of a Quick Transmigration Cannon Fodder and Background NPC 快穿当炮灰路人NPC的日子 Chocolate Tortoiseshell Cat巧克力玳瑁喵Two Male Leads197k WordsOngoing [Quick Transmigration + Two Male Leads + Some Worlds Are Exclusive, Others Aren’t + 1v1] An orphan who finally worked his way to a PhD dies unexpectedly and is sent by a System to another world, where he must complete missions as a cannon-fodder character. But the System’s golden finger is utterly useless, and it’s always making fun of him. When you’re under someone else’s roof, you have to keep your head down. Just wait: thirty years east of the river, thirty years west of the river… Uh, give h 34Reads—Score10914d adds
9. 109 月 Moonlit Night, Conquest 月夜，征服 Long Wind Chasing Waves长风逐浪Urban387k WordsOngoing Lin Fan, a poor country boy from a mountain village, awakens an ancient medical inheritance by accident. From then on, his medical skills are divine, and his fate takes a turn for the better. By day, he's an unremarkable village doctor. But who could have guessed... 215Reads6.9Score11814d adds

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   Some scenes leave a lasting impression, not because they are deliberately dramatic, but because the characters face difficult choices, and there are trade-offs no matter which they choose, which immediately makes the scenes feel real.

10. 110 傻 You Silly Boy, Mind Your Manners 傻小子，你斯文点 Long Wind Chasing Waves长风逐浪Rural Life342k WordsOngoing Chen Fan is a down-and-out village fool who unexpectedly inherits the legacy of an ancient medical immortal. From then on, he is transformed. His astonishing medical skills can bring the dead back to life, while his heaven-defying cultivation lets him look down on all challengers. He grows medicinal crops, opens a clinic, and builds a farm, leading his neighbors to prosperity. ... See how the fool stirs up the world, growing from an object of universal ridicule into an unparalleled divine physic 1.3kReads—Score10114d adds
11. 111 乡 Fragrance of the Countryside 乡村花香 Xiao Xingyu肖星羽Urban563k WordsCompleted My new work is out! You can read it on Tomato Novel. I hope you enjoy it. Your support is what motivates me to write, and I'll do my best to tell every story well! 97Reads6.5Score—14d adds
12. 112 老 The Villain Created by a Straight-Laced B Forced into Love by an E Has Arrived 老实B被E强制爱造的反派穿来了 Just a Coward是一枚胆小鬼啊Two Male Leads139k WordsOngoing [Mistress in status, empress in attitude * colorless and odorless, but deadly poisonous] Jin Yingyu is an honest, ordinary nurse. Pheromones have nothing to do with him; all he wants is to find a beta and live a peaceful life. His partner, Wei Kan, is an orthopedic surgeon who treats him with cool indifference. The two of them are polite and courteous to each other. That is, until someone around his age barges into his life, insisting he is Jin Yingyu's son. His future partner isn't Wei Kan, but 187Reads—Score14914d adds

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